... undoubtedly the concluding one, enti- tled Plain Whig Principles. In it the programme of the Liberal Party is, for the first time since Mr. Glad- stone's defeat in 1874, definitely propounded by the Whig official organ. It has long been apparent to dispas- ...

... sharpen the point of the contest till it comes to mean not a trial of strength between Conservatives and Radicals, or between Whigs and Tories, but a battle between those who wish to preserve the Union and those who do not; in fact, between Eng- lish and ...

... Liberal weekly journal will be started after the General Election, and that its leading promoter is an Edinburgh publisher of Whig Democratic opinions, who is about to retire from business. ANOTHER poem by a Royal author. The King of Sweden has just published ...

... entangled us in war with the United States in i865, was suggested to America by Mr. Canning, and was extravagantly lauded by the Whigs of that day. COLONIAL PARLIAMENTS. W ~tERE Candide again to visit these brumous W1}/ Isles, he might be puzzled by a curious ...

... agreeable to Whigs like Lord Granville, unless the new Radicals resemble more closely than we imagine their predecessors of fifty years ago, of whom it was said that, as bees on flowers alighting cease their hum, so settling upon places Whigs grow dumb ...

... party was by means of a vote in the House of Commons. In these latter days we have changed all that. The dictum of the greatest Whig leader of the last century, that the voice of the country should never be listened to outside the walls of .St. Stephen's, ...

... moderate Presbyterian. He does not disguise that he is fond of the turf, of the stage, of a good joke; yet shrewd Scotch Whigs allow him to keep all three in their proper places, as factors in a rational public life, not incentives to a reckless private ...

... But it probably occurred to more than one reader that the real trial of the annalist's powers was to come. The struggles of Whigs and Tories before the Reform Bill are, as it were, things before the Flood, capable of being handled without undue excitement ...

... Wharncliffe. When the Whig law officers pronounced the intended mass meetings, towards the end of November, to be illegal, and when Mr. Wakley at last restrained the London mob which he had previously excited, the air began to clear, and the Whig Ministers put ...

... ensue from this new freak of Household Suffrage. We ven- tured to believe that these were vain imaginings in the main, that the Whig element would keep the Cabinet tolerably steady, and that facts would prove too stubborn things in domestic as in foreign policy ...

... find Mr. Green falling into the error which supposes that the famous Duke of Newcastle began his official life under the first Whig Ministry of Anne, i.e. when his Grace was thirteen years old. On p. I23 we are informed that the temper of George I. was ...

... But the Bill of ?? amounts to a veritable caricature of this principle, and naturally roused the alarm and indignation of the Whig manu- facturers and owners of mines. To such an extent did rebellion break out on the Liberal benches on Tuesday afternoon ...